South Carolina May Need To Dissolve Its Baseball Program After Allowing Auburn To Score TWENTY-FOUR Runs in 4 Innings

If you told the South Carolina baseball coaches that the Gamecocks would only allow Auburn to score in four separate innings in the series opener between the two teams, I'm pretty confident they would have taken that deal. College baseball is more high-scoring than the big leagues, so if you can hold a team to five or six runs, that's usually going to be fine. The only slight issue is that while South Carolina did only allow Auburn to score in four frames, the Tigers crossed the plate 24 times total from the second through the fifth inning and the Gamecocks lost 24-2.

This would be very impressive and difficult to do against Western Carolina, much less South Carolina or any SEC team for that matter — except maybe Missouri, who's 0-24 in conference play but that's its own whole issue.

The most unfortunate part is we'll never know how many runs Auburn could have actually put up because of the stupid mercy rule. If a game ends 11-1 after seven innings, whatever. But if there's a team out there that has put up 24 runs in the first five frames, let's see how bad this thing can get. Make South Carolina stand out there and either get somebody out or keep having to wear it. These guys are being paid; make them get 27 outs.

Maybe the worst news of all for the Gamecocks is they're playing a doubleheader today after that performance. I'd say keeping the Tigers under 35 runs in the twin bill might be a successful day.